Purkinje neurons: What is the signal for complex spikes?
Cerebellar Purkinje neurons generate characteristic complex spikes; but are these bursts of activity generated by somatic or dendritic excitability? A recent study may have settled this debate by giving the soma the dominant role, but it does not fully resolve the question of what information is transmitted downstream of the Purkinje cells.
Hong
Sungho
S
Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 7542 Onna, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0411, Japan. sungho.hong@gmail.com
De Schutter
Erik
E
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002525:Cerebellar Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D011689:Purkinje Cells / Q000502:physiology*
D002118:Calcium